The research group focuses on the affective experience in three perspectives: relationship between emotion and care, emotional sharing and emotion regulation, which are closely interconnected at both the individual and the social level. The research will feature the effective co-operation between participants from the areas of philosophy (who will examine the topic in the ancient and medieval philosophy, in John Locke, Hannah Arendt, and in current phenomenological debates), of psychology (emotion regulation in care), of pedagogy (emotional labor) and of sociology (nursing work and emotions).